Victoria Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1973. Memorial.

Victoria Memorial

WRENN ID
waiting-cloister-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1973
Type
Memorial
Address
Victoria Memorial, the Square
OS grid reference
SE 088 264
Coordinates
53.73393, -1.86689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Victoria Memorial is a hexagonal stone structure built between 1870 and 1880, commissioned by Colonel Akroyd as the central feature of the model village of Akroydon. Designed in a rich 14th-century style, it has three main stages above a high stepped base, which is topped with pinnacles and a small spire. On the south side, there is a worn statue of a queen with an inscription below it. Additionally, remnants of mosaic decoration can be found on the north and south sides.

Local climate

Victoria Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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